Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <4195@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 3 Mar 91 02:39:38 GMT References: <91.056.16:01:18@ira.uka.de> <12608@helios.TAMU.EDU> <91058.234938CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <4173@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991Mar1.084348.11135@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 23 torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >>So does Windows. Windows 1, which had the same Clipboard support as Windows 3, >>was announced before the Mac came out, > But AFTER the Lisa... And after some Xerox machines. >>and was finally delivered one year after the Mac - five years ago. > The Mac was delivered in January 1984... 7 years ago. Ok, you have won. The difference in time is more than one year, but less than two years :-) But so what. My point was that the argument that Windows copies the Mac is getting stale. Wolfgang Strobl #include